CBI vs Gujarat Police Head Constable and others
Head Constable of Limkheda Police Station (Dahod) was convicted on 21 January 2008 by Special CBI Judge U.D. Salvi in Mumbai — where the Supreme Court had transferred the [name withheld] trial — for falsifying evidence/refusing to record [name withheld]'s initial complaint after the March 2002 gang-rape and murder of her family during the Gujarat riots; eleven other accused received life imprisonment while six other police officials and two doctors were acquitted at trial. The Bombay High Court in May 2017 upheld the life sentences and additionally convicted the seven trial-acquitted policemen/doctors; the appeal status of his own trial conviction is not confirmed in the sources reviewed.
This page documents a trial-court conviction from the cited sources below. It is not a High Court or Supreme Court finding; the conviction may have been appealed. Findings are attributed to the convicting court; this record does not add findings of its own.
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By judgment dated 21 January 2008, the Special CBI Court, Mumbai (Judge U.D. Salvi; trial transferred from Gujarat by Supreme Court) convicted the Head Constable, Limkheda Police Station, Dahod, Gujarat Police.
- Register number
- GJ 20 CW 0001
- Case reference
- Sessions Case No. 634 of 2004 (Special Judge, Greater Mumbai); reported in the judgment of the Special CBI Court, Mumbai (trial transferred from Gujarat by Supreme Court; Judge U.D. Salvi)
- Court and date
- The Special CBI Court, Mumbai (Judge U.D. Salvi; trial transferred from Gujarat by Supreme Court), 21 January 2008
- Officer(s) at the material time
- Head Constable, Limkheda Police Station, Dahod, Gujarat Police
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 217 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 218 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “The police officer, [name withheld] was convicted of the offence punishable under Sections 217 and 218 of the IPC.”
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction recorded by the trial court. Sentence: Not confirmed in sources reviewed
- Present status of the proceedings
- The conviction was affirmed in appeal.
Compiled from the judgment and the cited sources. Findings are those of the court; this card adds none of its own.
Special CBI Court, Mumbai (Judge U.D. Salvi; trial transferred from Gujarat by Supreme Court) convicted the accused police personnel on 21 January 2008. The conviction was upheld on appeal. Appeal text.
Sentence & charges
Sentence: Not confirmed in sources reviewed
Sections: IPC 217; IPC 218
Appeal status
Upheld on appeal. Appeal text